Neurológia pre prax 5/2010
Diagnostics of lexical retrieval in patients with aphasia
The present study investigated the influence of context on word retrieval by individuals with aphasia. Twenty patients with aphasia were presented with two different tasks, confrontation naming (naming of pictures) and spontaneous speech. Significant differences between the tasks were found in favor of sponntaneous speech. It was concluded that spontaneous speech offers more ecologically valid information about lexical retrieval in patients with aphasia than does confrontation naming and stresses also intervention of contextual speech.
Keywords: aphasia, lexical retrieval, naming test, spontaneous speech.
